But Vice President Francisco Reyes was reported to have said they deserved payment for "a job performed".
Why do so few MPs consider that their interns deserve payment?
First, however it is framed, it is a confirmation that the British government felt that it had something unpleasant — "totally unsatisfactory" — that deserved payment.
Do you think that your time and talent are so valuable you deserve payment not just for doing a job but even for interviewing for one?
(I'll keep the rare bootlegs, obviously, and illegally download the albums proper if I miss them. Gillian Welch, David Cameron's performing pig, no longer deserves payment).
The judge found yesterday that Disney had breached its fiduciary duty to Mr Katzenberg by failing to account to him for the merchandise on which he claimed that he deserved payment.
It's presumptuous to believe you deserve payment when you only just start submitting your work.
The claims, in Connecticut Superior Court in Bridgeport, argue that the families deserve payment because their loved ones were injured as a result of an unsecured firearm, said attorney Josh Koskoff in a statement.
With federal courts in Santa Ana and San Francisco as a battleground, David Bartholomew tried to prove that he deserved payment as the logo's true designer, claiming he drew it in 1977 for a class assignment at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design.
Szwed makes a reasonably convincing case that Alan tried to be fair (though noting that many disagreed with his contention that collectors deserved payment too) and reminds us that "no one had yet come up with a way to determine who was the creator of a folk song".
The Veterans of Future Wars were based on the idea that since everybody in college now was pretty much certain to serve in the military and get shot at in the foreseeable future, they felt they deserved payments, as the World War I veterans did, and that they would much prefer to have them now while they were still alive to spend them.
